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Active Charge Equalizer of Li-Ion Battery Cells Using Double Energy Carriers

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  • Sang-Won Lee

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-783, Korea)

  • Yoon-Geol Choi

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-783, Korea)

  • Bongkoo Kang

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-783, Korea)

Abstract

In this work, a new active balancing circuit is proposed. This circuit consists of a cell-access network and an energy-transfer network. The cell-access network requires 2 n + 6 switches, where n is the number of cells, and creates an energy-transfer path between unbalanced cells and the energy-transfer network. The energy-transfer network has double energy carriers and simultaneously implements cell-to-pack and pack-to-cell balancing operations without overlapping. As a result, a high power rate and fast balancing operation can be achieved by using two energy carriers in a single balancing circuit. The prototype of a proposed balancing circuit was built for six cells and then tested under various conditions; all cells in the state of charge (SOC) region of 70% to 80% were equalized after 93 min, and one charging/discharging period in the SOC region of 10% to 90% was increased by 8.58% compared to the non-balancing operation. These results show that the proposed circuit is a good way to balance charges among batteries in a battery pack.

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  • Sang-Won Lee & Yoon-Geol Choi & Bongkoo Kang, 2019. "Active Charge Equalizer of Li-Ion Battery Cells Using Double Energy Carriers," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-13, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:12:p:2290-:d:240096
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